In 1980, US capitalist politics wore a "nice-guy mask," a troubling disguise to cover up a creeping despotism....

Everybody Lies

Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are

By:
Seth Stephens-Davidowitz,
Steven Pinker - foreword

Narrated by:
Tim Andres Pabon

Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins

Unabridged

Overall

1,613

Performance

1,420

Story

1,410

By the end of on average day in the early 21st century, human beings searching the Internet will amass eight trillion gigabytes of data....

Could have been shorter for information contained

By
David
on
06-22-17

Publisher's Summary

The remarkable epic of an invention that revolutionized medicine…

Dr. Raymond Damadian was plagued with a mysterious and persistent stomach pain, yet physicians assured him that they could find nothing wrong. To find the answer to his ailment, Damadian would spend the ensuing twelve years building a machine that would change medicine. Nuclear magnetic resonance scanning, now called magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), was a revolution: A safe means to determine the makeup of every cell in the human body, distinguishing healthy cells from sick. Although Damadian's ideas were met with skepticism and outright opposition from the medical community, this machine would go on to save the lives of millions by diagnosing disease while effective treatment was still possible. In short, it was a medical miracle.

The story of Damadian's quest - battling skeptical peers, money troubles, and more with an intensity approaching obsession - is one of the great legends of medical research. Sonny Kleinfield, acclaimed reporter and author, captures Damadian's remarkable triumph against the odds with compassion and a keen eye.

A Machine Called Indomitable is scientific storytelling at its finest.

Performance

Story

Inspiring and Accurate

Very well-written. The subject matter might not hold everyone's interest, and the ratio of scientific explanations to coverage of personal interaction is about 50:50. Read it if you're interested in the invention of the MRI, or if you're interested in the atmosphere of competition in the medical science field during the 1970s, or if you like inspiring success stories that involve oddball people. I'm related to someone who was on the original FONAR team. Based on my knowledge of events, the subject was researched in-depth, and the personal quotes and anecdotes sound accurate to me.